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Your Money - Programme Details

The Horizons Your Money programme offers a range of courses and individual support sessions to help one parent families manage their money.

Your Money Courses

There are a series of Your Money courses, designed specifically for lone parents. They cover a whole range of topics including basic household budgeting, choosing credit, managing debt, dealing with loans, Child Trust Fund and much more.

As with all Citizens Advice services, the courses are free and are very friendly and relaxed. In fact, it’s often the case that simply being with a group of people who are all in the same boat, can be extremely helpful. The sessions are very flexible and try to address all the issues faced by the group. However, if someone has a very specific or detailed problem an individual appointment will be set up.

Individual support

If you need specific help, you can book a one-to-one appointment to see an advisor at the bureau. Where possible, you’ll need to bring along all the information and paper work you have that relates to the issue.

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Horizons Your Money - Participating Bureaux

The following bureaux are responsible for the Horizons Your Money programme in their surrounding areas. If you’re interested in finding out more, please give one of them a call and they’ll let you know what is going on and where.

If you live or work in Essex contact:

Mary Hennessey at the Basildon, Billericay & Wickford CAB
01268 465 683
Email: mary@bascab.org.uk

If you live or work in East/North London contact:

Sandie Rustock at the East London Financial Inclusion Unit
020 8555 8630
Email: sandie@elfi.org.uk

If you live or work in Merseyside or Lancashire please contact the nearest bureaux:

Joe Lavelle at North Liverpool CAB
0151 285 1089
Email: joe_l2@northliverpoolcab.co.uk

John O’Meara at Toxteth CAB
0151 280 5781
Email: john.omeara@toxtethcab.org.uk

Dave Breare at Blackpool CAB
01253 308 435
Email: dave.breare@blackpoolcab.org.uk

If you live or work in the Tyneside or Teeside areas contact:

Robert Owens at Newcastle CAB
0870 126 4015‡
Email: robert@newcastlecab.org.uk

Angela Corner at Stockton CAB
01642 633 877
Email: acorner@stockton-cab.co.uk

Keith Telford at Washington CAB
0191 416 6848
Email: keith.telford@cabwashington.co.uk

If you live or work in the Northamptonshire area contact:

Karen Hayes at Northampton CAB
0844 855 2122‡
Email: fincap@corby.cabnet.org.uk

If you live or work in the Wolverhampton area contact:

Sharon Martin at the Wolverhampton CAB
01902 572 210
Email: sharon.martin@wcabx.org

If you live or work in the Bedworth, Rugby or Nuneaton area contact:

Dave Grove at Bedworth CAB
024 76 643 206
Email: dave.grove@brancab.org.uk

If you live or work in the Cardiff area contact:

The Horizons Advisor at Cardiff CAB
029 2034 6499

If you don’t live in one of these areas and are seeking advice, your local CAB will still be able to help. Contact details for your local CAB can be found in the Yellow Pages and on www.adviceguide.org.uk

Please contact your local bureau to hear about the latest courses or visit www.adviceguide.org.uk for more information

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Working with lone parents?

If you’re a professional working with one parent families and you feel that you and your team or the parents you’re working with would benefit from financial literacy training, then please call your nearest participating bureaux to discuss your requirements. If your local CAB isn’t providing the Your Money programme, they may still be able to help.

Our Horizons advisors are happy to run sessions for existing groups of lone parents or professionals supporting them.

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*Disclaimer: All case studies are based on real people but names may have been changed where requested. All stories are factually true but may have been edited for ease of interpretation. All images shown are solely to depict a representation of the lone parents we help, and are not of the people featured within the case study.